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Hiring aid: end of the scheme for professionalization contracts on 30 April 2024
Publié le 10 janvier 2024 - Mise à jour le 29 avril 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The aid of up to €6,000 granted to employers who recruit alternates will no longer apply to young people on a contract of professionalization as of 30 April 2024.
Since 1er January 2023, companies who recruit alternates (apprentices and young people under a professionalization contract) benefit from a hiring aid of up to €6,000.
All employers of apprentices and employees under contract for the professionalization of the private sector and the public industrial and commercial sector are eligible. It is granted without conditions to companies with less than 250 employees, additional conditions for companies with more than 250 employees.
A decree of 29 December 2023 maintains this aid for 2024. However, a decree of 24 April 2024 states that the aid does not apply to professionalization contracts concluded after 30 april 2024.
This aid may be combined with specific aids for apprentices with disabilities.
Please note
the aid amounts to €6,000 maximum and shall be granted to companies for the first year of contract performance.
Conditions for exceptional hiring assistance
To hire an alternate
The requirements for applying for assistance in hiring an alternate are as follows:
- it must be an apprenticeship contract
- it must be concluded between 1er January 2023 and December 31, 2024;
- the alternant must prepare a diploma or a professional title equivalent to no more than level 7 of the national register of professional qualifications (Bac +5).
To hire an employee under a professional contract
The requirements for applying for hiring assistance under a professionalization contract are as follows:
- it must be a contract for professionalization;
- it must be concluded between 1er January 2023 and April 30, 2024;
- the employee concerned by the contract must be under 30 years of age;
- certificates of professional qualification (CQP) and professionalization contracts involving actions to validate experience acquired in the context of the ‘Reverse EEV’ experiment are also eligible.
Companies with 250 or more employees
Such companies may qualify for aid if they also meet one of the following two conditions:
- Achieve at least 5% of contracts promoting professional integration (apprenticeship contract, professional contract, etc.) in the total annual number of employees by 31 December of the year following that in which the contract was concluded. This 5 % is equal to the ratio between the number of employees covered by employability contracts and the total annual number of employees of the company.
- Achieve at least 3 % of alternates (apprenticeship or professionalization contracts) and have experienced a 10 % increase in alternates in the year following the year of conclusion of the contract, compared to the annual number of employees in these categories (apprenticeship contracts and professionalization contracts) in the year of conclusion of the contract.
If these objectives are not met, the money collected will have to be repaid.
Payment of the aid
No special steps are required to qualify for the aid, the company simply has to declare the hiring of an apprentice.
The aid is paid automatically by the Service and Payment Agency (ASP) every month during the first year of the apprenticeship or professionalization contract, before the salary is paid. The company receives a notice of payment that can be viewed on the SYLAé platform.
Warning
to benefit from the exceptional aid which was in force until 31 December 2022, contracts concluded between 1er July 2020 and December 31, 2022, that have not yet been tabled must be transmitted by March 31, 2024 to the Skills Operator (OPCO) designated according to the sector of activity.
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